Miho Takagi won her 34th speed skating World Cup individual gold medal Friday, tying Hiroyasu Shimizu and Nao Kodaira for the most by a Japanese in distances contested at Winter Olympics.The 30-year-old won the women's 1,000 meters at Calgary's Olympic Oval in the season's third meet, as the Beijing Olympics 1,000 gold medalist clocked 1 minute, 13.10 seconds.Jutta Leerdam of the Netherlands was 0.36 behind in second and Han Mei of China was a further 0.12 back in third."I'm genuinely proud to be able to reach this record at my age," Takagi said. "But there are areas I'm not doing well. Thi…READ FULL ARTICLE